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GU Students Attend UN Meeting on Afghan Women’s Rights
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Georgetown students attended a closed meeting at the U.N. General Assembly alongside foreign diplomats and girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai.
Emily Han
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The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) co-hosted a closed meeting at the United Nations General Assembly to discuss Afghan women’s rights. Girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Minister of Sweden Ann Linde attended the Sept. 20 meeting, titled “The Role of Feminist Foreign Policy Champions in Securing Women’s Rights in Afghanistan.” Georgetown University students Alara Karahan (SFS ’24) and Nasim Azizi (GRD ’24) also attended the meeting, which covered ways to support women’s education in Afghanistan after the Taliban banned girls from attending
high school in March 2022, seven months after taking over the Afghan government. Azizi, who lived in Afghanistan and advocated for the rights of women and girls there for 13 years, said participants at the meeting discussed ways to convince the Taliban to open schools for girls and ways for girls to continue their education in the meantime. “The international community is trying to find a way out of these problems because no effective action has been taken so far, and it has been a year since schools were closed for girls,” Azizi wrote to The Hoya. “Universities in the United States and other universities around the world can plan and See UN, A6
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The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine offered foreign service career advice to Georgetown undergraduate and graduate students and spoke on her role in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
Former Amb. to Ukraine Speaks at GU Kristin Chang
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he former ambassador to Ukraine spoke to the Georgetown community about her memoir, diversity in the U.S. Department of State and what a career in foreign policy looks like. Marie Yovanovitch, who served as ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019,
reflected on her memoir “Lessons from the Edge,” at the Oct. 5 webinar hosted by the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. The memoir details Yovanovitch’s experience testifying before Congress during the first impeachment of former president Donald Trump after he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate then-presidential
candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement with Ukraine energy company Burisma. Following her testimony, Trump recalled Yovanovitch from her post in May 2019. Prior to her recall, Yovanovitch told three House committees that Trump had pressured the State Department to remove her from her role at the embassy.
Student Activists Raise $1,000 For Immigrant Legal Support Alaina McGill
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Georgetown University students hosted a fundraiser to support immigrants in need of legal representation, raising over $1000 for the cause. At the Oct. 3 event entitled “Iced Drinks Against ICE,” students from the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), Hoyas for Immigrant Rights (HFIR) and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán (MEChA), a student organization whose
mission is to empower Mexican Americans through advocacy, sold iced beverages for $5 each, doubling their goal of $500 within the first few hours of the event. Proceeds from the event went to Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), an organization that provides legal representation to thousands of immigrants from nearly two dozen countries. Mikhail Floresca (NHS ’24), co-president of HFIR, said immigration law and misconduct from the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency is a personal issue for many Georgetown students. “Displaced communities hit close to home for many people who identify as firstgen or immigrants here at Georgetown,” Floresca wrote to The Hoya. “With the mistreatment at the border and the recent bussing of migrants from Texas and Arizona to D.C., the narrative of migrant hot potato continues –– the government keeps passing us around like cargo,
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Three Georgetown student organizations sold iced drinks to raise funds for ImmDef, a nonprofit which specializes in providing legal aid representation to immigrants.
moving us back and forth without thoughts of our feelings and plights.” The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government agency tasked with securing the U.S. border and enforcing immigration law. According to Human Rights Watch, over 160 reports of misconduct were filed against ICE from 2016 to 2021, including assault, sexual abuse and discrimination. In addition, ICE frequently conducts raids on workplaces and residential areas, often arriving unannounced and separating families in the process. Funds raised at the event went to ImmDef because of its work in uplifting migrants and providing them with essential research, said Tahis Meza (COL ’24), copresident of MEChA. “For our club, being inherently political, it was important to agree to work with organizations that further our political agenda aiding the Latine community and ultimately empowering and liberating the oppressed,” Meza wrote to The Hoya. Annually, ImmDef helps more than 1,500 children defend themselves before judges and navigate the U.S. court system, something they would otherwise have had to do on their own. Currently, around 4,000 people are held in detention at the See ICED DRINKS, A6
Despite Trump’s accusations of disloyalty, Yovanovitch has won numerous awards for her contributions to U.S. foreign service — she earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times, the state department’s Superior Honor Award nine times, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award twice, See AMBASSADOR, A6
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